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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Over 20 years? I'd say Atlanta/Winnipeg was worse most of those years. Edmonton was the biggest joke going until they finally got some supporting players this year (and traded their whole future to do it). Ottawa under Melnyk was a pretty rancid joke most of the time. Florida spent years and years with about five decent players and ten fans, which is as jokey as a team can get. The Islanders, having their backup goalie as GM, were a pretty good punchline. And nobody was calling the Kiprusoff/Iginla Flames a joke, and that was well within the last 20 years.
It's most unwise, if you are going to indulge in recency bias, to specify a time frame long enough to make your bias obvious.
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See this is the problem - You ignore actual success and equate opinion of failure to facts, and team "character" to on ice success
The Oilers have had more playoff success in the last 20 years then the Flames. This is even with being the laughing stock of the league for 8 years. They even beat us, and now are in the cup finals
Ottawa lost in the semis and Stanley Cup finals in the last 20 years - Guess those don't count because... Melnyk? Who cares if they have ownership issues. They have had more playoff success
Florida... Holy F - They have had more success the last 2 years then the Flames in 20 seasons
Islanders went to 2 conference championship in the last 6 years. But they named a backup goalie as a GM.. HAHAH. If only they could hire the amazing management the Flames do!
News Flash - NO ONE cares about how teams win. No one in the league cares about Iginla and Kipper being good guys outside of Calgary. Stop looking for some holier then thou reason the Flames are "good"
Since the miracle run the Flames have been one of the least successful franchises in the NHL, and are set up with one of the hardest paths forward to a championship based on their current team - No stars on the team and not so bad we can (currently) tank and get 1 easily.
We have won 2 Playoff series (and one play in) series in 20 years.
We are the embarassement of the league success wise outside of Buffalo
The point of sports is to WIN (and make money) not have a team of nice guys. We also employed Bertuzzi and Marchment. We arent some magical ethical organization. We are failures. We need to accept it, look forward, and CHANGE.
You have some fear of being the "worst" - While I want them to aim to be the best.
No one remembers who finished last 10 years ago (unless you are a disgruntled Flames fan and it was EDM) but most people can remember who won the cup